raised to the power of 7. Just by the name and the number “7,” any specialist will say that the papyrus is not “mathematical” at all, but “religious.”
Ahmes talks about how the main way to find all secret knowledge is power operations with numbers. Pythagoras never understood this. For more than 30 years of studying with the Egyptian priests, he was “primarily” initiated into the “magic” square, which they did not understand, which we now call the “Pythagorean table”. But he never understood its real meaning. Pythagoras multiplied the numbers of rows and columns, obtained an effective result, and then “operated” with the result. But the possibilities of the square were not limited to this. Thus he gave results for the primitive material world. Numbers had to be raised to a power, and then transferred to the “vibrating position” - this was the SECRET of AHMES, which gave access to the secrets of the “heavenly staircase”.
Pythagoreanism was dead from the very beginning, because its founder remained a dropout. The secret of the I Ching is exactly the same. Not one of the “great masters” of the I Ching living today knows the real secret of the “Book of Changes” (at least I couldn’t find one, maybe I don’t know the “greatest”). We will see all this in the next chapter, but for now let’s talk about the numbers themselves.
The secret of the "nine". Oh, how much nonsense there is here. To begin with, I will offer you a mathematical “trick” so that you understand that all “secrets” are obvious. Think of a three-digit number so that the first and last digits are different, write it backwards, subtract the smaller from the larger; “turn over” the resulting difference again and add it to the “unturned” one. Whatever number you initially came up with, there will always be only one answer - 1089.
The secret is simple. If you add 1+8+9=18, then 1+8=9, you will get the “digital root” of the number 1089. It is equal to “9”. If you take any three-digit number, turn it over, and subtract the smaller from the larger, then the sum of the extreme digits will always be “9”, and in the middle there will also be “9”. The “digital root” of the difference is always “9”.
The fastest way to obtain a "digital root" is the "dropping nines" method. Add the first two numbers, discard “9” from the sum and add the rest further, that is, 1089=1+8-9=0+9=9, leaving “9” - this is the “digital root”.
If you take any large number and rearrange its digits in any order, and then subtract the smaller from the larger, the “digital root” of the result will always be “9.”
Write any large number, add up all its digits and subtract the resulting sum from the initial number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”.
Come up with any large number, find the sum of its digits, multiply by “9” and add the result to the original number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. Etc. and so on.
A not very educated person will immediately start talking about the “magic nine”, the “sacred Enead”, the “great Sephiroth”, about... other near-religious nonsense. And “the casket opened simply”:
All the “mysterious” properties of nine are explained by a completely primitive fact - this figure is the last in the decimal system we use.
Would you like me to reveal to you the “magical secret” of the number 12 in the Babylonian system? Nevermind? You guessed it yourself. Well, yes, 12 is the last digit. Thus, “magical properties” can be given to any number, you just need to choose the appropriate number system for it. Seven will become “completely magical” in the octal system. Accordingly, the properties of the remaining numbers do not depend at all on the numbers themselves, but on their place in the number system.
The “digital root” of numbers is much more “stable” than the numbers themselves. We have already noticed this in the ability of the number “9” to appear in complex permutations of digits in numbers. If you take any number with a digital root of “9”, rearrange its digits in any way you like, add it to the original one, and repeat this process as many times as you like, then in the end the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”.
There are many such properties of the “digital root”, and they are not limited to addition. The “digital root” of the product of the “digital roots” of two factors is equal to the “digital root” of the product of these factors. This suggests that the “digital root” is like the “soul of a number”, which is preserved during rather complex operations with numbers.
Theosophical Kabbalists call the operation of obtaining a “digital root” “theosophical addition”, or “theosophical reduction”, and the root itself is considered as “the vibrating basis of the original multi-digit number”.
Poetic. With such allegories it is not far from magic.
With such “poetry” and “sacredness” we have already fooled the average person so much that in number theory there is even a section of “psychology”. If you ask an ordinary person to name a number from 1 to 10, he will name “7” with a very high probability. If you limit the range from 1 to 5, then it will be "3". Because we have drilled “magic numbers” into the average person’s head. The same will happen if you ask to name a number in the range from 1 to 50, but so that all the numbers are different and odd. Naturally, with the greatest probability it will be “37”, that is, a combination of the same
raised to the power of 7. Just by the name and the number “7,” any specialist will say that the papyrus is not “mathematical” at all, but “religious.” Ahmes talks about how the main way to find all secret knowledge is power operations with numbers. Pythagoras never understood this. For more than 30 years of studying with the Egyptian priests, he was “primarily” initiated into the “magic” square, which they did not understand, which we now call the “Pythagorean table”. But he never understood its real meaning. Pythagoras multiplied the numbers of rows and columns, obtained an effective result, and then “operated” with the result. But the possibilities of the square were not limited to this. Thus he gave results for the primitive material world. Numbers had to be raised to a power, and then transferred to the “vibrating position” - this was the SECRET of AHMES, which gave access to the secrets of the “heavenly staircase”. Pythagoreanism was dead from the very beginning, because its founder remained a dropout. The secret of the I Ching is exactly the same. Not one of the “great masters” of the I Ching living today knows the real secret of the “Book of Changes” (at least I couldn’t find one, maybe I don’t know the “greatest”). We will see all this in the next chapter, but for now let’s talk about the numbers themselves.
The secret of the "nine". Oh, how much nonsense there is here. To begin with, I will offer you a mathematical “trick” so that you understand that all “secrets” are obvious. Think of a three-digit number so that the first and last digits are different, write it backwards, subtract the smaller from the larger; “turn over” the resulting difference again and add it to the “unturned” one. Whatever number you initially came up with, there will always be only one answer - 1089. The secret is simple. If you add 1+8+9=18, then 1+8=9, you will get the “digital root” of the number 1089. It is equal to “9”. If you take any three-digit number, turn it over, and subtract the smaller from the larger, then the sum of the extreme digits will always be “9”, and in the middle there will also be “9”. The “digital root” of the difference is always “9”. The fastest way to obtain a "digital root" is the "dropping nines" method. Add the first two numbers, discard “9” from the sum and add the rest further, that is, 1089=1+8-9=0+9=9, leaving “9” - this is the “digital root”. If you take any large number and rearrange its digits in any order, and then subtract the smaller from the larger, the “digital root” of the result will always be “9.” Write any large number, add up all its digits and subtract the resulting sum from the initial number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. Come up with any large number, find the sum of its digits, multiply by “9” and add the result to the original number - the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. Etc. and so on. A not very educated person will immediately start talking about the “magic nine”, the “sacred Enead”, the “great Sephiroth”, about... other near-religious nonsense. And “the casket opened simply”: All the “mysterious” properties of nine are explained by a completely primitive fact - this figure is the last in the decimal system we use. Would you like me to reveal to you the “magical secret” of the number 12 in the Babylonian system? Nevermind? You guessed it yourself. Well, yes, 12 is the last digit. Thus, “magical properties” can be given to any number, you just need to choose the appropriate number system for it. Seven will become “completely magical” in the octal system. Accordingly, the properties of the remaining numbers do not depend at all on the numbers themselves, but on their place in the number system. The “digital root” of numbers is much more “stable” than the numbers themselves. We have already noticed this in the ability of the number “9” to appear in complex permutations of digits in numbers. If you take any number with a digital root of “9”, rearrange its digits in any way you like, add it to the original one, and repeat this process as many times as you like, then in the end the “digital root” of the result will always be “9”. There are many such properties of the “digital root”, and they are not limited to addition. The “digital root” of the product of the “digital roots” of two factors is equal to the “digital root” of the product of these factors. This suggests that the “digital root” is like the “soul of a number”, which is preserved during rather complex operations with numbers. Theosophical Kabbalists call the operation of obtaining a “digital root” “theosophical addition”, or “theosophical reduction”, and the root itself is considered as “the vibrating basis of the original multi-digit number”. Poetic. With such allegories it is not far from magic.
With such “poetry” and “sacredness” we have already fooled the average person so much that in number theory there is even a section of “psychology”. If you ask an ordinary person to name a number from 1 to 10, he will name “7” with a very high probability. If you limit the range from 1 to 5, then it will be "3". Because we have drilled “magic numbers” into the average person’s head. The same will happen if you ask to name a number in the range from 1 to 50, but so that all the numbers are different and odd. Naturally, with the greatest probability it will be “37”, that is, a combination of the same